When you think of an all-girls, catholic, secondary school, the automatic, cliché assumptions that en-circle every persons mind as the die-hard truth, is that every female whom attended such a school must have either ended up becoming a boy-crazy fanatic, an undercover lesbian (or had kissed a girl, at the very least - especially true in the case of dem St Joe's, hoes! ha.), or simply, lacked emotional attraction to any male figures, with the possibility of a couple celebrity exceptions.
The truth is that every single girl who's attended an all-girls catholic secondary school can - and does, in fact - fit into at least one of these mythical categories. It really is true.
Another misconception about all-girls secondary schools, is that everyone thinks that the second we put our uniforms on, we become assimilated into a preternatural utopian society... but like any North American high school, an all-girls catholic secondary school consisted of your typical female jocks, your nerds, your geeky nerds, your drama students, your fashion buffs, your art majors, your over-achievers, your under-cover lesbians (most of which were Filipino, haha), and of course, your supa-fly gansta's (most of whom have children now).
Where did I fit in? I couldn't tell you. Not because if you knew, I'd have to kill you, rather, because I don't know. I was all over the place. In fact, I was home most of the time, sleeping (no joke).
If anything, I might have been an over-achiever; My freshman year at Dame (Notre Dame! Represent!!) was a year filled with an unnecessary and excessive amount of extra curricular activities, including being a part of my school's play (we won a national competition), the leadership/spirit team (better known as the Camp Olympia Team), the soccer team, the volleyball team, the softball team, the track team, the basketball team, the badminton team, the knitting club, the Reach team (W5H), the environmental club, the photography club, choir, and the art club... I'm pretty sure that's about it. I specifically remember being burnt out at various points of that year.
Definitely an over-achiever in grade 9 - hard work, I tells ya.
It took me the next three school years to catch up on all the sleep I missed from that one year.
To get back on track, everything is true about all-girls schools, but we're not robots. That's the only thing we were not. If anything, we're more confident, successful, adventurous, and freedom-loving than the majority of high school graduates - but that's just my opinion.
